5. You must synchronize all that brain power you’ve hired so that people work together, not against each other. You need them to push, pull, lean in, and lean out in service to great decisions, not politics and personality issues.

6. You must learn how to truly empower people so they can contribute their best. You don’t want them wasting their time guessing how to play the game. Or chasing wild geese. Or worrying about office politics or career limiting mistakes.

7. You have to get away from the impulse to control people. You have to give up trying to create organizational clarity from the top. You need to teach people how to create clarity-on-the-fly so they can achieve profoundly productive clarity every moment of every day in situations that can not be predefined, predicted, or controlled by anyone other than those involved.

Organizations worldwide have increased productivity, reduced defects, and improved performance through lean thinking and quality initiatives. They have also learned to hire more effectively. What they haven’t learned is to create the level of clarity critical for high productivity and smart decisions. Clarity is the single greatest opportunity today for improving results. Unfortunately, it is not for lease.